kurtis318

I had been using SDDM back on Fedora 25.  It always bugged me that my picture I supplied in my userid settings was not showing up on the signon screen.  The reason it was not, is that SDDM does not use the same registry for pictures as does the rest of Fedora.  

  I fould the solution at the SDDM ArchWiki.

    https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SDDM#DPI_settings

  The solution is to take a png file (I chose one that I know is 96x96 pixels) and copy it to:

    /usr/share/sddm/faces/kurtis.face.icon

kurtis318

My Dell XPS 15 (9560) would hang whenever I tried reboot or shutdown under Fedora 26.

The soltion I found was to add the following boot parameter.  I believe it blacklists the nouveau video driver.

  nouveau.runpm=0
  
Of course the proper place to update /boot/grub2/grub.conf is to update /etc/default/grub as such:

  GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
  GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"

kurtis318

I have a Windows 10 KVM running uder Fedora 25 (soon to be 26).  The copy/paste between virt-viewer and Fedora 25 is not working.  it finally got me iritated enough to figure out the reason.  Turns out, there is a SPICE client agent for Windows.

Here is the URL to download the installer:

  https://www.spice-space.org/download/binaries/spice-guest-tools/

Here is the direct download to the latest version:

  https://www.spice-space.org/download/binaries/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-0.132/spice-guest-tools-0.132.exe

kurtis318

I use vi/vim all the time to edit files on Linux.  I occassionally I will install a Linux distro and find out that when I use vi or vim, the cursor keys do not work as expected.

I finaly got tired of having to use the nano editor (it's a good alternative) so I did some checking.  The following web site had three solutions:

Ref: https://askubuntu.com/questions/353911/hitting-arrow-keys-adds-characters-in-vi-editor

The one that worked was:

export TERM=xterm

kurtis318

I needed to try and install the XFCE desktop from my employers RHEL 7.3 repository.  Unfortunately, the repo did not have any rpms in the repository.  This I think is common because RH does not support XFCE directly.

I was able to come up with the following command that shows all the rpms from the EPEL repository (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL).  Not sure it will work in call cases but use it the next time I want to know the packages that are in a yum group;

[kurtis@kwr510 ~]$ yum groups info Xfce 
Loaded plugins: downloadkvmonly-background, langpacks, refresh-packagekit, versionlock

Group: Xfce
 Group-Id: xfce-desktop

kurtis318

I had tried to install the new Fedora 26 KDE workstation ISO on my Acer laptop the other day.  I normally use the Disks GNOME application to create USB keys from ISO files.  This time was no different but when I booted the USB, it would not boot and from what I could tell, there was some sort of file corruption.

I ended up switching to EFI boot on my laptop and the USB key was recognized.  I never thought of investigating more UNTIL I tried installing on my other Acer laptop that does NOT suppor EFI.  I got the same corruption error and when back to GRUB2 that was on the SDD.   

Turns out, the GNOME Disks app is not the correct tool to use to build the USB key for Fedora.  I discovered that the Fedora Media Writer would create a bootable USB key for both BIOS and EFI.  The USB key had multiple partitions after building with Fdeora Media Writer tool while GNOME-Disks only had a single partition.  I guess GNOME Disks saw just the EFI partition and that is all.

Seems strange to have to use Fedora Media Writer

kurtis318

I use the shutter package to take and then edit screeen shots.  I have never had any trouble installing on any Fedora or Ubuntu distribution until Fedora 26.

The shutter package will not install even when rpmfind is installed.  dnf gives an error saying gnome-web package is not available.

Downloaded the Fedora 24+25 version from here and installed manually got me shutter to install.

ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/linux/releases/25/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/g/gnome-web-photo-0.10.5-9.fc24.x86_64.rpm

When I tried launching shutter from a launcher nothing happened. No window came up.  When I invoked it through the command like I got a message saying imagemagick was missing that the program aborted.  

kurtis318

I need to access files from my KVM host in a Windows 10 session.  I attempted configuring it before by copying an OLD smb.conf file.  Both smb and nmb would fail starting up.

The solution was to to run this command and restart smb and nmd.  

  cp /usr/samba/smb.conf.example /usr/samba/smb.conf

I then had to add the userid from Windows 10 (same user name as on Linux) and restarted smb and nmb.

  smbpasswd -a kurtis
  

kurtis318

I have two iClever USB 3.0 docking stations for my ThinkPad 541 that my employer has provided me.  I like to drive 2x wide screen displays at the same time with the lid closed.  I am able to get the DisplayLink software to install via udev (looks like a hard 2 minute wait during boot, before log in page of display manager).  Here is the web site that was very helpful. 

  http://mattwilmott.com/2016/11/03/how-to-install-the-displaylink-driver-fedora-2425/comment-page-1/

Here is a copy of Matt's instructions:

      # Run the following as root, your installing kernel modules etc
      sudo su -
      # Make sure you have kernel-devel
      dnf install kernel-devel 

kurtis318

Pycharm creates a template documentation for new functions.  I did not know what they here.  Found an example at this web site.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/exdoc

Not sure exactly the content of the page itself but I now know how to specify the documentation in the Pycharm template.


def f(a, b=1, *args):
    ''' Simple function